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It is fairly common practice when writing software that is to be used in multiple operating environments to use a scheme like one of these as a configuration option when installing the software. Obviously the copyrighted code in example 2 from HP configures itself each time the script runs based on the results of a call to uname. How the IBM script in example 1 and the nagios script in example 3 are setup may be hidden in the ... areas of the code you didn't show or during the installation of these scripts.
I don't know of any university course that teaches this style, but you can bet that HP, IBM, and Oracle have coding guidelines (and probably internal classes) that specify coding styles for these kinds of application scripts.
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PAPS(1) General Commands Manual PAPS(1)
NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango
SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files...
DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
through the pango ft2 backend.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below.
--landscape
Landscape output. Default is portrait.
--columns=cl
Number of columns output. Default is 1.
--font=desc
Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.
--rtl Do rtl layout.
--paper ps
Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4.
--bottom-margin=bm
Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36.
--top-margin=tm
Set top margin. Default is 36.
--left-margin=lm
Set left margin. Default is 36.
--right-margin=rm
Set right margin. Default is 36.
--help Show summary of options.
--header
Draw page header for each page.
--markup
Interpret the text as pango markup.
--encoding=ENCODING
Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING.
--lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.
--cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.
--stretch-chars
Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
behaviour.
AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.
This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)